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Although Billy the Kid’s life was short and violent, you can now retrace the places where the Regulators road and walked. Visit the old historic buildings where they slept and dined. Grab a map and guide from the New Mexico Tourism Department and follow along for what might be quite an adventure. You just might run into a ghost or two along the way. Here are a few more places you can visit while following the ghostly trail of Billy the Kid. 
The second half of the Billy the Kid tour finds us in the village of Lincoln, New Mexico. There are still more than a dozen buildings that stood during the Regulator’s war with the law. After you visit the Lincoln State Monument’s Anderson-Freeman Visitor Center & Museum, take a walk along Main Street. You will see the Tunstall Store where the Kid and his pals ambushed and killed the Lincoln County Sheriff. In Lincoln you will find the historic McSween House and Wortely Hotel. The Lincoln County Court House was the scene of yet another shoot out with the Kid. Near by is the Morton and Baker Murder Site where the Kid and his pals shot and killed Billy Morton and Frank Baker somewhere along the Blackwater Canyon Creek in March 1878.
Roswell is known for its UFO encounters, but just four miles east of the town is the Pat Garrett Home. It was built about 1880 on the 1,800 acres that Garrett homesteaded. It is now a private residence. There are other homes and ranches near by like the John W Poe Home, John S Chisum Ranch and the Flying H Ranch that were all owned by lawmen chasing down the likes of the Kid and his pals.
Your fifth day of chasing Billy the Kids ghost will take you to an old Comanchero trail known as the Texas Road. A few miles SE of Portales, it was a rendezvous stop and hideout for thieves and outlaws. Billy the Kid and his pals used this area to rest their horses and stolen livestock. The Kid yearned for his own ranch someday in this area. Also on the Comanchero trail is the site of a spring that was used as one of Pete Maxwell’s cattle Camps. The Kid frequented cattle camps while staying near Fort Sumner.
Stinking Spring is a foundation of the abandoned rock cabin where Pat Garrett and his 12 man posse cornered the Kid and his pals and killed Charlie Bowdre in December 1880. After being captured at Stinking Springs, the shackled Kid was treated to a turkey dinner at Alexander Grzelachowski’s Home & Store under the watchful eye of Pat Garrett. The adobe structure is in Puerto de Luna, about 10 miles south of Santa Rosa.
The last day on the trail finds you in Las Vegas, NM and the site of the county jail where the Kid spent the night after his capture at Stinking Springs. The old train depot where Garrett and the shackled Kid boarded the train to Santa Fe is just east of the railroad tracks beyond Railroad Avenue. 
Fort Sumner is a state monument today. Just beyond Old Fort Sumner Museum, are the marked graves of the Kid, Bowdre, O’Folliard and the Maxwell’s. It is located about 7 miles SE of the village of Fort Sumner and the Billy the Kid Museum.
The ghosts of Billy the Kid, his Regulator pals, and the lawmen that hunted them have been seen in several New Mexico locations. A great site with maps, history and day planner for visiting the entire Billy the Kid adventures is:
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